Buchanan

The defendant was charged by an information containing five counts with that number of offenses of forgery and two prior convictions. He admitted the previous convictions but pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. He was found guilty on three counts. Judgment was pronounced, the sentences being-made to run concurrently. At the time the defendant was arraigned for judgment on February 24,- 1928, he was informed not only of the pleas to the counts of forgery and the verdicts thereon, but also of the allegations' of the prior convictions and his admission of them. A motion for a new trial was then made and denied. On the same day as the arraignment, and, in fact, as soon as the motion for new trial was disposed of, the court sentenced the defendant to be confined in the state prison at Folsom for the term prescribed by law. The minutes of the court read with respect to count IV are as follows:

The language is identical respecting the other two counts. The record does not disclose the language of the commitment, but on March 17, 1930, an amended commitment reciting the two prior convictions was issued and forwarded to the board of prison directors. On November 24,…